Comments on: Reinventing Academic Publishing – Part I http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/08/14/reinventing-academic-publishing-%e2%80%93-part-i/ Weblog for the Mindswap research group at University of Maryland Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:20:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: Peter Murray-Rust http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/08/14/reinventing-academic-publishing-%e2%80%93-part-i/#comment-50808 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:32:31 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/08/14/reinventing-academic-publishing-%e2%80%93-part-i/#comment-50808 Very useful summary. I have <a href="http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=502" rel="nofollow">blogged it </a>and addressed the last paragraph - on tools - in http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=502. I argue that we should systematic resource into developing semantic authoring tools in a similar manner to (or perhaps instead of) the Grid funding. Very useful summary. I have blogged it and addressed the last paragraph - on tools - in http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=502. I argue that we should systematic resource into developing semantic authoring tools in a similar manner to (or perhaps instead of) the Grid funding.

]]> by: Eran Toch http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/08/14/reinventing-academic-publishing-%e2%80%93-part-i/#comment-50783 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:41:36 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/08/14/reinventing-academic-publishing-%e2%80%93-part-i/#comment-50783 Thanks for a thought provoking article! I personally see that the boundaries between my blog posts and my articles are starting to blur (a bit). I already started to post some "unfinished" or "unborn" articles in the blog, and I guess that I would do much more of that when blogs will receive higher credentials in the academic community. The question of ranking seems to me a central one, in this context. The Web and the academic community, can be thought of as ranking systems. The links on the Web are used to rank Web sites, while the academic community uses reviewing, of some sort, to judge research and researchers. It might be interesting, from a scientific point of view, to ask when do these two ranking systems collide? When do they agree? What are the theoretic and empirical characteristics of these two systems? Eran. Thanks for a thought provoking article!

I personally see that the boundaries between my blog posts and my articles are starting to blur (a bit). I already started to post some “unfinished” or “unborn” articles in the blog, and I guess that I would do much more of that when blogs will receive higher credentials in the academic community.

The question of ranking seems to me a central one, in this context. The Web and the academic community, can be thought of as ranking systems. The links on the Web are used to rank Web sites, while the academic community uses reviewing, of some sort, to judge research and researchers. It might be interesting, from a scientific point of view, to ask when do these two ranking systems collide? When do they agree? What are the theoretic and empirical characteristics of these two systems?

Eran.

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